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Tonight was the last of the 2023 All Comers meets at Hayward Field. The mile had 46 racers. largest field in All Comers history. My time was 8:48.50, about eight seconds faster than two weeks ago. In cheater shoes on maybe the fastest track in the world. Beat four people. Next race is a 5K on August 12. With my sweetheart.
Books read in July. Five favorites with astericks.
The Spectacle Of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes*
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King*
Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet*
Freedom by Sebastian Junger
East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler
Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe
The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets of Happy Living by Meik Wiking
Uppity Women of the Renaissance by Vicki Leon
Francisco Goya: A Life by Evan S. Connell
The Know It All: One Humble Man’s Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The Whole World by A.J. Jacobs*
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself*
The reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. –George R. R. Martin
Today we enjoyed: Nureyev: A Portrait
And Nureyev in Swine Lake with Miss Piggy. You can find it on You Tube. Very funny.
Today I ran the mile on the super track, in super-exceedingly helpful Nike shoes at the OTC All-Comers, Hayward Field.. My time was around 8:55 (results not yet available). Maybe next to last. Oldest by 10 to 15 years. I’m happy. Plan to return next week.
My PR, when around 50, is around 5:25. On the track at College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA.
. “How well he’s read, to reason against reading!” – William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost